If you use Reading Street for ELA, you probably wonder whether your students "get" the oral vocabulary you review with them each week. Well, if I spend time planning and teaching it, I think it's worth finding out what they're learning! (If you ask me, the fact that this vocab is NEVER assessed is kind of weird for a series that tests the daylights out of everything else!) Here's an easy way to assess your students understanding of those "amazing words".
- After you've introduced all of the oral vocab for the week, have kids fill out their own graphic organizer by writing each word under one of the headings.
- Have kids do a "turn and talk" to explain why they placed 2 or 3 words where they did.
- Then have everyone write those words or as many words as possible in sentences within a few minutes. I give 3 minutes. ( I know its called "oral vocabulary" but I think we need to move those words into writing vocab, too.)
Use the sentences as a quick assessment of their learning. It takes only a few minutes to update the headings and words for the week. I do oral vocab 2 or 3 times each week so I make more than one version. I put the focus words in bold.
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